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A list projects to make emergency ventilators in response to COVID-19, focusing on free-libre open source
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Ukraine Bubble CPAP #61

Closed jety89 closed 4 years ago

jety89 commented 4 years ago

Apparently this design from Kharkiv was used in the '90s to save hundreds of patients including babies. Not sure if this counts as a project but this is so far the simplest/most buildable I've come across. They say it't the "Kharkiv children's hospital" workers who remembered using them. The doctor in the interview is Volodymyr Korsunov. The ventilators they had back then were of a lower quality and caused many complications. The name "bubble cpap" comes from the bubbling of the water which acts as an exit pressure regulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sQmRaOkSRc Looks similar to the category in the readme called Other Therapies